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Pioneers in the Black Hills
It’s doubtful that Calamity Jane loved Wild Bill Hickock as much as local lore alleges, but there’s no disputing that the tomboy gunslinger bought groceries from Jacob Goldberg on Main Street. The proof is neatly written in an 1895 ledger from “J. Goldberg, Dealer in Groceries, Provisions and Produce,” on display downtown at the Adams…
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A Tribute to Sills
REMEMBERING BEVERLY SILLS: A BROOKLYN BORN DIVA WHO THRILLED THE WORLD When the Forward was preparing its 100th anniversary special edition in August 1997, Beverly Sills (who, at age 78, died July 2 of lung cancer) was one of several dozen New York personalities and politicians whom I invited to pose reading the English and/or…
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Krakow Jewish Fest Features Notable Absence: Jews
Krakow, Poland – About 13,000 people crowded the main square in the cobblestone-paved former Jewish quarter of Krakow last week for the finale of this year’s Jewish Culture Festival. The event — which is funded by the Polish government, the city of Krakow, the Friends of the Krakow Jewish Culture Festival in New York and…
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Pro-Israel Lobby Throws Support Behind Fatah-Led Palestinian Cabinet
Washington – Pro-Israel lobbyists and legislators have become unexpected cheerleaders for the Palestinian leadership after the new Fatah-led Cabinet took action against Hamas. In a memo sent out to congressional offices this week, the American Israel Public Affairs Committee commended the new Palestinian government for “taking important steps needed for peace” and for breaking ties…
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U.N. Rights Chief Takes Her Case to Congress
United Nations – It took three years for the United Nations high commissioner for human rights, Louise Arbour, to make her first official visit to Washington. When she finally made her way to the capital last month, the cause she found herself advocating was none other than her own. The House and Senate have introduced…
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Video Renews Beefs About Slaughterhouse’s Practices
A video from a kosher slaughterhouse in Nebraska is reigniting concern about the way the nation’s largest kosher meat company handles its animals. The three-and-a-half minute video shows bloody images of cows being killed at the Local Pride slaughterhouse in Gordon, Neb., which is owned by the Brooklyn-based Rubashkin family. The footage was filmed and…
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Reform Movement Steps Up Aliyah Efforts
As a Reform Jew who scarcely visited Israel in three decades and whose vision of retirement once tended more toward New England than Netanya, Robert Bernstein is not the likeliest candidate for making aliyah. But after raising three daughters who are passionate about Israel and planning to study there before college, Bernstein, 54, has decided…
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Allegations of Hezbollah’s Terrorist Activity in Iraq Are Met With Skepticism
Last week an American general in Baghdad announced that a veteran Hezbollah commander had been caught in Iraq and had admitted to training and directing anti-American Iraqi militias in coordination with Iran’s hard-line Revolutionary Guard. The presence of Hezbollah in Iraq has been alleged by American officials before, but last week’s announcement marked the first…
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Rocket Exhibit Lands in Tel Aviv
Tel Aviv – Dozens of Palestinian-made Qassam rockets landed on Tel Aviv’s Rothschild Boulevard last week, placed there by students from the heavily shelled Negev town of Sderot. The graphic street exhibition was planted on the placid tree-lined artery in an effort to focus public attention on the nearly daily barrage of Palestinian rockets raining…
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Accounting Shift at Claims Conference
As the Conference on Jewish Material Claims Against Germany held its annual board meeting this week, it took a step that may help it fend off recent charges of financial mismanagement. A few days before the annual meeting of the Claims Conference — the international body charged with negotiating Holocaust restitution settlements — the organization…
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Gelt Complex: WJC Taps New Official, Young Leaders Summit, Gordis To Step Down
WJC Taps New Official The newly elected president of the World Jewish Congress, Ronald Lauder, has reportedly tapped a B’nai B’rith executive to assume the controversy-laden post of secretary general at the WJC, the representative body of world Jewry. Daniel Mariaschin, executive vice president of B’nai B’rith International, is set to take over the post…
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